Claudia Christian is an American actress born on August 10 1965 in Glendale California Her family moved to Connecticut some afterwards At age five she was bitten by the acting bug when she played a Native American in a school play After her family returned to California she graduated high school at 16 and set out to start her acting career She worked in a coffee house and then at a clothing store for two years before landing her first acting role on the soap Dallas 1978 In her next appearance she played Kara in the television movie Calendar Girl Murders 1984 TV Her big break came when she landed the part of Susan Ivanova on the sciencefiction series Babylon 5 1994